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TURKISH SOLDIERS POST DEAD BODIES OF KURDISH PEOPLE ON FACEBOOK
A Facebook page named Anlatilmaz Yashanir, which translates into You’ve got to live to feel it contained pictures of Kurdish people killed in Turkey, some of the pictures were taken as a mockery of... Read more
Friday 27 January 2012
Syrian Uprising 2011 Information Centre: Summary (27/01/2012): We wish we could write the names of all the martyrs who have fallen today – around 100 – on the memorial day of the fall of Auschwitz.... Read more
Thursday 26 January 2012
Syrian Uprising 2011 Information Centre: SUMMARY (26/01/2012): More than 60 martyrs across Syria today – including 9 women and 8 children. The most martyrs – at least 37 – fell in Homs... Read more
Wednesday 25 January 2012
Syrian Uprising 2011 Information Centre: SUMMARY (25/01/2012): At least 22 martyrs have fallen today – including 4 defected soldiers, 2 women and a 5 year old child. A Roman Orthodox priest, Father... Read more
Tuesday 24 January 2012
Syrian Uprising 2011 Information Centre: SUMMARY (24/01/2012): Another bloody day in Syria – at least 60 martyrs with more than 40 dead in the central city of Homs where there was heavy shelling... Read more
Monday 23 January 2012
Syrian Uprising 2011 Information Centre: SUMMARY (23/01/2012): At least 26 civilian martyrs have fallen today – in Homs, Idlib, Daraa, Damascus and Dayr az-Zawr. The Assad regime has already rejected... Read more
Sunday 22 January 2012
Syrian Uprising 2011 Information Centre: Summary (22/01/2012): 22 martyrs have fallen today, 15 of them in Damascus Countryside, where there have been more clashes in the suburbs of Duma and Kafar Batna,... Read more
Saturday 21 January 2012
Global Day of Rage for Syria – 21/01/2012: Syrians killed: 6,597 Children killed: 446 Females killed: 305 Injured: +35,000 Missing: +65,000 Protestors killed under torture: 402 Protestors currently... Read more
Friday 20 January 2011
Syrian Uprising 2011 Information Centre: UPDATE (20/01/2012): Today is the 45th consecutive Friday of nationwide protests against Assad and at least 13 martyrs have fallen – in Idlib, Homs, Hama,... Read more
Iran: Kurdish activists sentenced to death
Two Kurdish activists has been sentenced to death by the Iranian courts for ‘waging enmity against God’ through ‘propaganda activities’ and ‘membership in a dissident group’ according to the... Read more
Thursday 19 January 2012
Syrian Uprising 2011 Information Centre: SUMMARY (19/01/2012): Today, at least 25 martyrs fell (21 civilians, 4 military) – through shelling, shootings, torture and executions. Following yesterday’s... Read more
Wednesday 18 January 2012
Syrian Uprising 2011 Information Centre: SUMMARY (18/01/2012): At least 18 martyrs have fallen (11 civilians and 7 defected members of the security forces) as the regime continues it’s crackdown... Read more
Tuesday 17 January 2012
Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: The death toll of civilians killed today in Homs and for whom the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has records and circumstances of death has risen to 12 people.... Read more
Monday 16 January 2012
Syrian Uprising 2011 Information Centre: SUMMARY (16/01/2012): At least 21 martyrs fell as Zabadani and Madaya remained under attack for a fourth day. Dozens of families have fled as military reinforcements... Read more
Sunday 15 January 2012
Syrian Uprising 2011 Information Centre: SUMMARY (15/01/2012): 32 martyrs have been recorded today. Zabadani / Madaya, and Homs are all under attack, and gunfire has been reported in many places from... Read more
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AMNESTY: Health Concerns for Detained Syrian Activist
Shibal Ibrahim, a member of Syria’s Kurdish minority and a political activist, has been held incommunicado by Syrian security forces since his arrest on 22 September 2011. He is believed to be in... Read more
HRW: Iran report
Human Rights Watch WORLD REPORT 2012: In 2011 Iranian authorities refused to allow government critics to engage in peaceful demonstrations. In February, March, April, and September security forces broke... Read more
HRW: Turkey report
Human Rights Watch WORLD REPORT 2012: As the Justice and Development Party (AKP) government focused on promoting Turkey’s regional interests in response to the pro-democracy Arab Spring movements, human... Read more
HRW: Syria report
Human Rights Watch WORLD REPORT 2012: Syria, a repressive police state ruled under an emergency law since 1963, did not prove immune in 2011 to the pro-democracy Arab Spring movements. Anti government protests... Read more
EU Council tightens restrictive measures on Syria
Brussels, 23 January 2012 5537/12 PRESSE 14 Council tightens restrictive measures on Syria In response to the unacceptable repression by the Syrian regime on the Syrian people, the Council today reinforced... Read more
HRW:Letter to the Arab League Secretary-General Regarding the Monitoring Mission in Syria
H.E. Mr. Nabil El Araby Secretary-General The League of Arab States Secretariat – Tahrir Square Cairo, Egypt Dear Secretary-General, We write to you in advance of this week’s meeting of... Read more
The Rise of The Kurds – the moment I embraced the essence of my nation, I breathed
Like many Kurdish people in Syria, I lived between two worlds and was treated as a second-class citizen. My family was one of many families going through a transitional phase between Kurdish ethnicity... Read more
Syria’s Kurds mistrust government and opposition: activists
(Reuters) – Syrian Kurds, the country’s largest ethnic minority, do not trust President Bashar al-Assad, nor the opposition, so for now have largely kept out of the uprising against the government,... Read more
Syria: Army Shoots Protesters Attempting to Reach Observers
Arab League Should Protect Civilians Or Reconsider Its Mission: (New York, January 12, 2012) – The Arab League should urgently condemn the Syrian security forces for shooting peaceful protesters who... Read more
AVAAZ petition: refer Syria to ICC
A Syrian activist working with Avaaz reveals gruesome scars after regime torture SIGN THE PETITION: To all members of the UN Security Council and the Arab League: We call on you to stop the deadly terror... Read more
Syria: Comply With Agreement
HRW: Arab League Should Set Clear Conditions for a Credible Mission The Syrian government should comply with all the terms of its agreement with the Arab League, Human Rights Watch said today ahead of... Read more
Amnesty I: Arab League should clarify human rights situation in Syria
“By their mere presence in Syria, the Arab League observers have given encouragement to the protesters to return to the streets in larger numbers and given more visibility to human rights concerns, but... Read more
UN Security Council membership
Wissam Tarif: Good news- #Lebanon and #Brazil two allies of AL Assad are out of #UNSC starting today. … Membership in 2012: The Council is composed of five permanent members — China, France, Russian... Read more
TURKEY MUST INVESTIGATE CIVILIAN KILLINGS
Amnesty International calls on the Turkish authorities to investigate immediately the death of at least 35 civilians in a military airstrike near the Iraqi border in south-eastern Turkey on the night of... Read more
SKS statement: Turkey bombing of Kurds on 28 December 2011
Turkish war planes bomb Kurds and massacre 40 children and youth in Sirnak, South East Turkey. Turkish war planes bombed villagers in the South East province of Sirnak, Turkey, killing at least 40 civilians,... Read more
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Human Rights Day – Highlighting Syrian Observatory founder and director Rami Abdurrahman
REUTERS: With only a few hours sleep, a phone glued to his ear and another two ringing, the fast-talking director of arguably Syria’s most high-profile human rights group is a very busy man. “Are there clashes? How did he die? Ah, he was shot,” said Rami Abdulrahman into a phone, the talk of gunfire and death incongruous with his two... [Read more of this review]
You can now help – the people of Wan and Erdis – from anywhere in the world!
by Kani Xulam on Wednesday, 26 October 2011 Dear Friends, We finally have a secure method to collect funds for the “Kurdish Earthquake Relief Fund.” You can send donations through your credit / debit cards from anywhere in the world using PayPal. Any amount is good – we know some of you are students and may not have the means of... [Read more of this review]
IRANIAN KURDS AT RISK OF IMMINENT EXECUTION
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL: The death sentences against Loghman Moradi and Zaniar Moradi, two members of Iran’s Kurdish minority have been up held by the Supreme Court . They could now be executed at any time. Zaniar (or Zanyar) Moradi and Loghman (or Loqman) Moradi were sentenced to public hanging on 22 December 2010 by Branch 15 of the Tehran... [Read more of this review]
Rudaw: US: Kurds Were Most ‘Organized and Daring’ Opposition in Syria in 2006
EXETER, the United Kingdom — A 2006 cable from the US embassy in Damascus shows that the US saw the Kurds as the most organized opposition in Syria but was reluctant to push Kurdish rights over concerns it could alienate Syrian civil society groups. “The most organized and daring political opposition and civil society groups are among the ethnic... [Read more of this review]
Sign the petition: Twenty Kurdish asylum seekers will be deported next week from Sweden to Iran
Twenty Kurdish asylum seekers will be deported next week from Sweden to Iran, where they face detention, torture and possibly execution, unless you stop it. With their lives on the line, the asylum seekers — all of whom are documented refugees with the United Nations — have taken the extraordinary step of going on a hunger strike to protest... [Read more of this review]
Monday 10 October 2011
Syrian Uprising 2011 Information Centre: SUMMARY (10/10/2011): At least 3 civilian martyrs are known to have fallen today – but with clashes in Homs and near Jisr ash-Shughur the real figure must be higher. Assad’s supporters spend a lot of time making threats these days – one of the most dramatic was the Grand Mufti threatening to... [Read more of this review]
Democratic Society Movement in Syria opens a school for Kurdish culture, without government consent
Hundreds of Kurds participated in the opening of a school – ‘Munther’ – which is named after a martyr, in the village of Qastl Makhted, in the Afrin area. The school has been created so that children can learn about their Kurdish heritage and culture. Those attending the opening included members of the Martys Family Association and the Ankezk... [Read more of this review]
Kurdish Studies and language classes at Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU)
At the direction of President McPhee, plans were developed to create a Middle East Center (MEC), which officially came into being in December 2006. From July 2006 through June 2009 MTSU had a Department of Education Undergraduate International Studies and Foreign Languages grant to initiate language programs in Arabic and Hebrew, develop courses for... [Read more of this review]
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